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SECTION I: First Man Pulled Up Successfully
I am watching the live broadcast from Chile. Japanese TV stations and a cable TV channel relaying CNN images present the spectacle.
I saw the first man being hoisted up and getting out of the cage into the spotlighted night of Chile.
Now, 34 men are in the copper mine, the rarest moment through this event.
(Two of them are from the surface of the ground to help original 33 and then 32 get out of the occluded tunnel.)
The second man is now in the cage; there will be soon 33 men again in the great mine cavity.
Now, the cage has started to move upward as the second time...
Great is the God!!
Now, it is 1 p.m. on October 13, 2010, here around Tokyo.
SECTION II: A Story of Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga is the most popular samurai hero in the Japanese history.
In his lifetime from 1534 to 1582, he fought 120 battles since his childhood.
(http://sound.jp/unira/nobunaga/n_table.html)
Specifically, even before he succeeded the status of a feudal samurai lord from his father in 1551, Nobunaga started to his wartime career since Japan was in the "Sengoku-Jidai" or the Warring States period since 1467. (Oda is a family name; Nobunaga is a personal name.)
His first engagement in a battle was in 1538 and his last battle was in 1582. So, a simple calculation results in 2.7 wars or battles per year; or every four months Nobunaga took up the sword and a war-horse, going out for a battle field against enemy samurais.
From other angle, Nobunaga survived 119 battles till the last and fatal one for 44 years.
In a series of several fiery battles against die-hard Buddhist forces in 1570's, he mobilized 100,000 or more samurai troops in each. In the battle in Mt. Koya south of Kyoyo launched in 1981, Nobunaga commanded 137,000 samurai troops. Many samurai-generals, such as Hideyoshi, subject to him and independent allies, such as Ieyasu, followed Nobunaga, believing that he would conquer and unite whole Japan for the first time in 100 years.
Nobunaga was also notable as the first samurai lord that introduced a tactics of using scores, hundreds, and thousands of matchlock gun shooters in a real battle in Japan. (The harquebus was first brought into Japan by Portuguese merchants whose ship went adrift to an island between Kyusyu and Okinawa in 1543.)
Nobunaga also adopted a system to hire as many as professional troops even in time of peace, though traditionally a samurai lord hired farmers, in addition to professional samurai warriors, in his territory as many as possible to constitute his troops only when he was engaged in a battle.
Nobunaga also loved to get useful information from missionaries from the Vatican. He protected their missionary work and allowed churches to be built in his territory. But, more remarkable was his employment of new structure of a castle based on stone basement and walls. It is said that Nobunaga learnt a merit of this type of castles built in Europe from Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian missionary priests.
Nobunaga literally killed tens of thousands of his enemy samurais, insurgents, and Buddhist fighters in addition to his close relatives trying to kill him.
But, it is believed that Oda Nobunaga had only one legitimate wife all through his life, though divorce was not uncommon in the samurai community since there were so many practices of political intermarriages one of which was also a Nobunaga's case.
His wife, Kicho or Noh-hime, had no children or at least no sons, which was fatally bad for a wife of a samurai lord.
Kicho's clan was later conquered by Nobunaga, after her father was killed by one of his sons in internal fighting. Now that Nobunaga got the territory of her original clan's, she might have become useless for Nobunaga, but it is believed that Oda Nobunaga did not divorce her while she could not give birth to his wanted successor.
When Nobunaga was assassinated by one of his subject-generals named Mitsuhide in a temple (Hon-no-ji) close to the south of Kyoto in 1582, she was in a great castle (Azuchi-jyo) of the Odas on the Lake Biwa north of Kyoto. Subsequently and quickly, she left the castle for a friendly samurai lord. Then, while Mitsuhide was engaged in a war with Hideyoshi, other subject-general of Nobunaga, to be eventually killed, the great castle was lost in a great fire.
After it, there were no authentic reports about her whereabouts. Yet, there is a record left in a temple near the great castle, now ruined, that she died in 1612. It is very reasonable that she was given a posthumous Buddhist name meaning "a senior graceful woman who nurtures flowers" as is left in an old record of the temple with a date of death, since her name Kicho means a "returning butterfly."
(In addition, it is said that Mistuhide was an old acquaintance of, or from a clan remotely associated with, Kicho, Nobunaga's wife. As Kicho was an attractive woman, Mistuhide was probably all the more resolute to revolt against his lord Nobunaga. Yet, it is a kind of miracle that the widow of Nobunaga, the all-time greatest samurai hero, could live peacefully through the era of Hideyoshi, an ex-follower of Nobunaga, and the era of Ieyasu, an ex-junior ally of Nobunaga. Maybe everybody was afraid of the soul of Nobunaga felt behind her. Otherwise, Oda Nobunaga, so bloody in his samurai career, might have observed one teaching of Christ Jesus so as not to ever divorce his wife, since Vatican missionaries were so near him sometimes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Niccolo )
SECTION III: P.M. Kan Should Release the Evidence Video on Senkaku (repeated)
To intentionally damage it and escape, a reckless Chinese skipper of a fishing boat hit his boat to a Japan Coast Guard ship on duty. The Chinese Communist Government praised this violent poacher as hero. You should not believe China in terms of their version of reports on GDP, the Tiananmen Massacre, and battles during WWII.
Check the Japan Coast Guard site:
http://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/e/pamphlet.pdf
Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Naoto Kan is not afraid of the Chinese people but of the Japanese people.
If the evidence video is released and clearly presents violent actions of the illegal Chinese fishing boat and its skipper, the Japanese people will surely get angry at the lawless Chinese skipper and the Japanese Government that released him while he was waiting for a trial in the Ishigaki-jima Island, Okinawa Prefecture.
It is estimated that 80% of the Japanese people will get angry at the lawless Chinese skipper and the Kan Cabinet. That is why P.M. Mr. Kan would not make it publicly open, while the Chinese Government has authorized Chinese sites presenting an illustration where the Chinese fishing boat is hit by a Japanese Coast Guard ship.
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Now the 14th man having been deep underground has been rescued in Chile.
It is time to think about what sign this incident is.
It is 33 men in two months and one week in a miracle situation.
There might be a case of one man in 66 months and 33 weeks, namely 74/12 = six years and two months.
Six years and two months ago, it was August 2004 a report on which is however not included in this blog.
On August 13, 2004, a helicopter of the U.S. Marines crashed in the campus of a university in Okinawa, Japan, though without human casualties.
On August 7, 2004, the Japanese national soccer team won the final of the AFC Asian Cup games held in Beijing, which triggered large-scale anti-Japanese demonstrations in China, while partly developing into anti-Chinese Government demonstrations.
Do you really feel that you alone has been making a desperate effort in Japan for peace and friendship with, say, America and China since August 2004?
Mat 10:12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
Mat 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.